Police officers summed up the results of the second stage of OPM "Mak" in the Orenburg region

During the raids conducted in the region, law enforcement officers carried out significant work to identify and eliminate the raw material base for drug production. In total, more than 110 hotspots were discovered and destroyed, as well as a number of illegal crops of drug-containing plants, such as hemp and poppy.

The total area of liquidated plantations was about 12,000 square meters. The total weight of the destroyed plant mass is estimated at 6 tons.

Operational actions also resulted in the withdrawal of large quantities of prohibited substances from illicit trafficking. Police seized about 17.5 kilograms of natural drugs and 1.1 kilograms of synthetic drugs.

In addition to working on the ground, police officers were actively fighting the organizers of the drug business. During the operation, more than 210 crimes and administrative offenses in the field of drug trafficking were identified and suppressed. In particular, the facts of cultivation of narcotic plants and the organization of dens for the consumption of prohibited substances are documented.

According to the results of inspections, more than 140 official orders on their destruction were issued to land users on whose plots foci of growth were identified. Monitoring the implementation of these requirements continues.